Exodus 1:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

New Living Translation
But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.

English Standard Version
But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Berean Study Bible
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

New American Standard Bible
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live.

NASB 1995
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live.

NASB 1977
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live.

Amplified Bible
But the midwives feared God [with profound reverence] and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded, but they let the boy babies live.

Christian Standard Bible
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Contemporary English Version
But the two women were faithful to God and did not kill the boys, even though the king had told them to.

Good News Translation
But the midwives were God-fearing and so did not obey the king; instead, they let the boys live.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
However, the midwives feared God and didn't obey the king of Egypt's orders. They let the boys live.

International Standard Version
But the midwives feared God and didn't do what the king of Egypt told them. Instead, they let the boys live.

NET Bible
But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

New King James Version
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

King James 2000 Bible
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

New Heart English Bible
But the midwives feared God, and did not do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

World English Bible
But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

American King James Version
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

American Standard Version
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

A Faithful Version
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved alive the male children.

Darby Bible Translation
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.

English Revised Version
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male-children alive.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Notwithstanding ye midwiues feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commaunded them, but preserued aliue the men children.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Notwithstanding, the mydwifes feared God, and dyd not as the kyng of Egypt commaunded them, but saued the men chyldren.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God, & dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them, but let the children lyue.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Notwithstonding the mydwiues feared God, and dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commauded them: but saued the menchildern.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt has spoken to them, and they keep the boys alive;

Young's Literal Translation
And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive;

Smith's Literal Translation
And the midwives will fear God, and they did not according to what the king of Egypt said to them, and they will preserve alive the boys.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the midwives feared God and did not do as the King of Egypt told them, and they were saving the boys.

Lamsa Bible
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the boys live.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.
















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